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 A NEW SPECIES OF PLAGIOMIMICUS. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH. 



Plagiomimicus triplagiatus sp. nuv.— General color an olivaceous grayish 

 fuscous; head paler; collar with a white line at tip; thoracic vestiture mixed 

 with white scales. Primaries, t. a. line white, narrow, upright, but slightly 

 curved outwardly. T. p. line white, distinct, broadly angulated beyond cell 

 and almost reaching the s. t. line, thence sinuate and very obliciuely inward, 

 reaching the margin about three-fifths from base. S. t. line white, scarcely 

 definite, though distinct, very even, or but little sinuate. The orbicular is 

 entirely occupied by a deep, blackish brown spot, which sends back an ob- 

 tuse spur to the reniform, which is very narrowly pale ringed and of a slightly 

 darker shade of ground color; between the t. a. line and this brown spot a 

 whitish shade still further relieves the dark marking. Between the outward 

 angulation of the t. a line and s. t. line is a triangular blackish brown costal 

 blotch, completely filling that part of the s. t. space. Below the middle of 

 ■ its course the s. t. line is preceded by a blackish brown shading, gradually 

 broadening until, at the margin it fills nearly the entire s. t. space. Secon- 

 daries whitish fuscous, paler basally. Beneath powdery, primaries with 

 maculation of upper surface vaguely reproduced. Exp. .90 inches; 23 mm. 



Hab. — Las Vegas, N. Me.x. ; Hot .Springs, 7000 feet; August. 



Several specimens collected by Mr. Meeske, are in the collec- 

 tions of Hulst and Neumoegen. The species is well marked and 

 easily recognizable by the three blackish markings and the white 

 transverse lines of the primaries. The species is related to expal- 

 lidus rather than pitychromiis. 



Dr. Hamilton describes the issuance o'i Elaphidion from the pupa 

 skin. It is an interesting fact that some species {Phymatodcs aniocnus 

 among them) do not shed the pupa skin at all, but this gradually 

 hardens and the beetle will walk about when still almost white and 

 the members still cased. I watched this carefully in Phvmatodes. 



SOCIETY NEWS. 



Brooklyn Entomological Society, June 3d. — Meeting at Brocjklyn 

 Institute. Mr. Ottomar Dietz, chairman pro tern., presiding. Twenty per- 

 sons present. — Report of Treasurer presented and approved. Mr. Weeks, 

 of Curators, presented their report of the Entomological exhibition held at 

 the Institute under the auspices of the Department on May 22d and 23d. 

 Exhibits were made from collections of Dr. Calvealy and Prof. B. Yaeger, 

 and of the collection of Lepidoptera of J. E. Meyer, also by H. Meeske and 



